When making out your Christmas shopping list, keep in mind what values your dollars support. If you support processes that cripple the economy, you are creating an economy that will cripple your children.

That said, take a few minutes to research the items on your family’s gift lists. For instance, much was made during the election of jobs being outsourced to China. One of China’s biggest manufacturing firms is Foxconn who makes tablets for Apple. Foxconn was criticized because they had an epidemic of employee suicides due to poor working conditions. Now, they have chosen the oh so compassionate route of ending employee dissatisfaction by replacing them with robots.

Yes, they are going to replace the troublesome humans with robots. Techsnoop finds this disturbing. If Apple continues to use this company and allows this to go forward, US dollars will be used to outsource jobs to Chinese robots.

What a concept. We will go from sending our dollars to support humans in another country, to supporting robots in another country. This might be marginally acceptable if the price of an iPad dropped to $100.00, but these prices are not dropping, each edition is more pricey than the last. Not to pick on Apple, their products are great, but this is just the most glaring example of a massive company using your consumer dollars to support human slavery.

As you seek to get the best value for your Christmas shopping dollars, remember that your money decisions create more than immediate happiness for the recipient. Money and how it is spent reinforces how large companies treat their employees and customers.

Buying fewer gifts from local merchants and businesses keeps your neighborhood clean and safe and makes sure your children remember the little store on the corner. When businesses such as these disappear, the community suffers. Who will hire and train your teenagers? Robots?

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